Tuesday, 21 May 2013

My Favorite Things

In honor of my daughters 20th birthday, I decided to come up with a list of some of my most favorite moments over the past 20 years. Of course there are hundreds more, but because I'm getting old and usually my moments of remembrance occur when I get up for a pee in the middle of the night and vanish by morning, these are what you get . . .

20. The way you sound like a Star Wars
fighter machine when you sneeze. Pew Pew
Pew … (Clearly I’m not up on my Star Wars lingo – but I know you know what I
mean)

19. You have a killer ‘throwing arm’ – it
impresses me every time I see you throw a baseball or football.

18. The way you interact with little kids –
you are enthusiastic and make them feel special.

17. When you were three and Grandma was
showing you the old chicken house, you looked inside, saw an old cow skull, and
said very seriously “Grandma, I think
your chickens are extinct”.

16. When driving through the mountains, you
were in awe of all the “Hindu’s” (Hoodoos)

A Drumheller Hoodoo

15. The picture you drew when you were in
Kindergarten that showed me lying on the ground with a wine bottle in my hand
and surrounded by empties that was captioned “My Mom likes to drink wine”.

14. When you were 5 and we took you to
Costco, and you laid in the cart and hollered “Help! Someone let me out of this
cage!” the entire time we were there.

13. Your childhood dream to be a ‘window
washer’ just so you could hang off tall buildings like Spiderman.

12. When you decided to participate in the
High Jump at track and field but didn’t realize you couldn’t dive over the bar.

11. When you
sing, my heart soars. I miss hearing you every single day.

10. When you were 6, you told me you figured
you could only handle living with me until you were 12, at which point you were
going to ‘make it on my own’.

9. Trying to explain to you why you
couldn’t keep 25 bumblee bee caterpillars in your closet corner – and the
subsequent attempt to explain why they were ‘all shriveled up like that’.

8. The day you
tried for hours to ‘catch’ a gopher just so you could have a pet.

7. The way your
eyes light up when you are telling a story, or flashing a smile.

6. During the last baseball game of the
year (age 8), you belted out the “Star Spangled Banner” for the entire duration
of the third inning. A proud Canadian indeed ;)

5. Watching you jump off the moving ride
on mower and sprinting across the yard because you saw a spider.

4. That time you went to school and told everyone that we went to a party on the weekend, and I brought 'Cocaine'. We worked VERY hard at sounding out the word "Kokanee" from that moment forward.

3. The look on your face when you bit into
a chocolate and discovered it was filled with Brandy.

2. On your first day at your new daycare,
you told all the teachers that you needed to behave or “my Mom will find
someone to adopted me”.

1. And my most favorite is when you wrap
your arms around me and say “I love you Mom”.

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I am a stay at home Mom of 4 (1 big, 3 little) living in Central Alberta. It is busy around our house, and rarely is there a dull
moment. When I'm not foiling the latest attempt at a parental coup, removing
children hanging from light fixtures, or trying to keep the fridge stocked, I can be found writing my blog, Gin & Tonic for the Mother’s Soul. Or I
might just be drinking Gin. It depends on the day.